Kate Nussenbaum

As NOVA's Online Intern, Kate blogs from the student perspective. As a sophomore at Brown University studying cognitive neuroscience, she is particularly interested in how our growing understanding of the brain may shape the ways we approach education. Kate writes for the science section of her school’s newspaper and you can follow her on twitter @katenuss.

This week, NASA announced that it will partner with the European Space Agency to send a 4,760-pound spacecraft into space to peer out over billions of galaxies in an effort to map and measure the universe. Its purpose: to investigate the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

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